Articulating the ?ijaba : : Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus / / Mariam Rosser-Owen.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series ; Volume 156.
• VerfasserIn: Rosser-Owen, Mariam,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 156.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 478 pages) :; illustrations, maps

In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus.; Readership: All interested in the history, literature, a...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Figures
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Al-Dawla al-ʿĀmiriyya: Constructing the ʿĀmirid State
• 1 Succession Crisis
• 2 Regency
• 3 The Maghrib
• 4 Conspicuous Piety
• 5 The Rise to Power
• 6 Al-Manṣūr
• 7 The Culmination of Power
• 8 Rupture
• 9 Restoration
• 10 Inheritance
• Chapter 2 Appropriating Diplomacy: The ʿĀmirid Court
• 1 The 'Ceremonial Idiom'
• 2 Tools of Diplomacy
• 2.1 Gifts
• 2.2 Dynastic Marriages
• 3 ʿĀmirid Diplomatic Relations
• 4 Diplomatic Exchange with the Maghrib
• 5 Objects of Exchange
• Chapter 3 'The Creation of Loyalty': Public and Private Staging of the ʿĀmirid Court
• 1 Elegance and Eloquence: the Literary Court
• 2 Private Poetry
• 3 A Culture of Learning
• Chapter 4 Architecture as Titulature: al-Madīnat al-Zāhira
• 1 Looking for al-Zāhira
• 2 Reconstructing the Palace
• 3 Reconstructing the City
• 3.1 The Mosque
• 3.2 Organs of State Bureaucracy
• 3.3 Walls
• 4 Why Did al-Manṣūr Build al-Madīnat al-Zāhira?
• 5 What Did al-Madīnat al-Zāhira Look Like?
• Chapter 5 The Politics of Piety: Al-Manṣūr's Extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba
• 1 The Pre-ʿĀmirid Mosque
• 2 The ʿĀmirid Mosque (Figure 49)
• 2.1 Analysis of the Interior
• 2.1.1 'Decorative Differences' That Can be Explained through the Need for Practical Solutions to Existing Construction Issues (See plan in Figure 49)
• 2.1.1.1 Double Qibla Wall Not Continued
• 2.1.1.2 Five-Lobed Arches to Resolve Disparity along the New Courtyard Façade
• 2.1.1.3 Five-Lobed and Pointed Arches to Resolve Disparity within the Northern Zone
• 2.1.1.4 Introduction of Lead Discs
• 2.1.2 Architectural Differences in Cordoba IV That Seem Purely Decorative, and Can Be Read as Ostentatiously Costly
• 2.1.2.1 Stone Construction
• 2.1.2.2 Increasing Complexity of Roll Corbels.
• 2.1.2.3 New Decorative Elements on the External Gates
• 2.1.3 Architectural Features That Were Imitated from the Earlier Mosque
• 2.1.3.1 Continuation of Transverse Arcade Running Parallel to Qibla Wall
• 2.1.3.2 Arcade of Large Horseshoes along Longitudinal Wall
• 2.1.3.3 Alternating Pattern of Coloured Columns
• 2.1.3.4 Newly-Carved Stone Capitals
• 2.1.3.5 Imitation of al-Ḥakam's Original Eastern Façade
• 2.1.4 ʿĀmirid Interventions into al-Ḥakam's Prayer Hall
• 2.1.4.1 Addition of Transverse Arcade along the Qibla Wall
• 2.1.4.2 An ʿĀmirid Tribune in the Maqṣūra?
• 3 Qurʾānic Inscriptions at the Great Mosque of Cordoba
• 3.1 Reading al-Manṣūr's Extension: the ʿĀmirid Epigraphic Programme on the Eastern Façade (Figure 67)
• Chapter 6 The Dār al-Ṣināʿa: ʿĀmirid Patronage of the Luxury Arts
• 1 The Origins of the Dār al-Ṣināʿa
• 1.1 Structure of the Industry
• 1.2 Craftsmen Working across Media
• 1.3 Materials
• 1.3.1 Stone and Marble
• 1.3.2 Ivory
• 1.3.3 Perfumes and Perfume Containers
• 1.3.4 Other Object Types
• 2 Iṣtināʿ: The Strategic Use of Objects
• 2.1 Precedents for Patronage: The Two Jaʿfars
• 2.2 Anonymous Objects
• 2.3 How al-Manṣūr Used Objects
• Chapter 7 Building a Corpus of ʿĀmirid Art
• 1 Objects Associated with al-Manṣūr
• 1.1 The Andalusiyyīn Minbar (Dated 369/980 and 375/985
• Figures 5-7
• Appendix 4.4)
• 1.2 Al-Manṣūr's Marble Basin (Dated 377/987-8
• Figures 108-109, 113-118
• Appendix 4.7)
• 2 Objects Associated with ʿAbd al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (r. 1002-8)
• 2.1 The Pamplona Casket (Dated 395/1004-5
• Figures 120-127
• Appendix 4.11)
• 2.2 The Braga Pyxis (Datable 1004-8, Figures 11, 15
• Appendix 4.12)
• 2.3 Marble Basins
• 2.3.1 Basin Made for ʿAbd al-Malik (Datable 1004-7, Figures 128-133
• Appendix 4.13)
• 2.3.2 Basin Made for ʿAbd al-Malik, Found in Toledo (Appendix 4.14).
• 2.3.3 Fragments from a Basin, Found at the Alhambra (Figures 134-135, Appendix 4.15)
• 2.4 The 'Suaire de Saint Lazare' (Datable 1007-8) and Its Comparanda (Figures 84, 136
• Appendix 4.18)
• 2.5 An ʿĀmirid Minbar for the al-Qarawiyyīn Mosque? (Appendix 4.17)
• 3 Objects Associated with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 'Sanchuelo'
• 3.1 The 'Ashmolean' Pyxis (Dated 389/999, Figures 139-141, Appendix 4.10)
• 3.2 The Xàtiva Basin (Figures 142-143)
• 4 ʿĀmirid Objects without Designated Patrons
• 4.1 Ivories
• 4.1.1 The Doha Casket (Dated 394/1003-4, Figures 145-146, Appendix 4.16)
• 4.1.2 The Bargello and V&amp
• A Caskets (Figures 148-155
• Appendix 4.19)
• 4.1.3 The Metropolitan Museum Panel (Figure 32)
• 4.1.4 Ivories from San Millán de la Cogolla
• 4.2 Stone and Marble
• 4.2.1 The 'Bādīs Basin' (Figures 156-158, Appendix 4.20)
• 4.2.2 Other Objects in 'the Large Basin Group'
• 4.2.3 Small Basins
• 4.2.3.1 Basin in Madrid
• 4.2.3.2 Basin in Seville
• 4.2.3.3 Small basin in Granada
• 4.2.3.4 Border fragment in Cordoba
• 4.2.3.5 Side fragment in Seville
• 5 The Language of ʿĀmirid Art
• Chapter 8 Poems in Stone: Imagery, Text and Meaning in ʿĀmirid Art
• 1 Poetic and Visual Imagery
• 1.1 The Lion and Gazelle (Figure 157)
• 1.2 Nature Imagery
• 1.3 The 'Heraldic' Eagle (Figures 116, 132, 158)
• 1.3.1 Banners
• 1.4 The Tale of the Tortoise and Two Ducks
• 2 Text and Image in ʿĀmirid Art
• 2.1 Visualising the Ideal Ruler
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 Genealogy of the Banū Abī ʿĀmir, 711-1085
• Appendix 2 Timeline of al-Manṣūr's Main Campaigns and Offices Held
• Appendix 3a Qurʾānic Inscriptions inside the Cordoba Mosque
• Appendix 3b Qurʾānic Inscriptions on the Eastern Façade of the Cordoba Mosque
• Appendix 4 Inscriptions on Objects Made for the ʿĀmirids
• Bibliography
• Index.